RIVIERA BEACH Turning Riviera Beach s waterfront into a sparkling municipal centerpiece has been a dream and challenge for city officials here for several years.
The first phase, with its blue-roofed, Bahamas-styled event center by the marina, opened in 2016. But it has stood pretty much by itself, set back from a broad, dockside esplanade of brick pavers and coiffed greenery, awaiting the rest of its promised accompaniment a $300 million Marina Village with new apartments, a hotel, garage, restaurants and shops along
with people and activity.
Now, as negotiators and Community Redevelopment Agency staff work behind the scenes, a new challenge has arisen for the City Council members, who sit as the CRA board of directors. A series of Atlanta Journal-Constitution articles from 2015 surfaced in the past two weeks that cast one of the main, tentatively selected developers in an unfavorable light.